Sex work should not be legally prohibited for adults
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Prohibitionism seeks to eliminate prostitution by criminalizing all aspects of the prostitution trade. Under this approach, prostitution is seen as a violation of human dignity. Criminal law and effective law enforcement are viewed as critical tools in reducing the number of individuals involved in prostitution.Decriminalization implies the repeal of prostitution-related criminal law. In Canada, decriminalization would involve repealing all criminal law relating to prostitution, including communicating for the purposes of prostitution, operating a bawdy house and/or brothel, and living off the avails of prostitution.Legalization refers to the regulation of prostitution through criminal law or some other type of legislation. This approach treats prostitution as a legal occupation, but nevertheless controls it by a set of rules that govern who can work and under what circumstances they may do so. Typically, governments that have adopted the legalization approach regulate the trade through work permits, licensing and/or tolerance zones.
The term sex work refers primarily to prostitution, but also encompasses adult video performers, phone sex operators, webcam models, dancers in strip clubs, and others who provide sexually-related services. Some extend the use of the term to include "support personnel" such as managers, agents, videographers, club bouncers, and others.
Sex workers also find it difficult to negotiate safer sex withintimate partners and clients in the context of physicaland sexual violence perpetrated by some of them.18 Forexample, in a survey conducted among Vietnamese sexworkers in Cambodia, 30% reported that they had beensexually coerced by clients who were unwilling to put ona condom.19
We find that criminalization increases sexually transmitted infections among female sex workers by 58 percent, measured by biological tests.
While decriminalization increases the size of the indoor sex market, reported rape offences fall by 30% and female gonorrhoea incidence declines by over 40%.
Our difference-in-difference analysis of 25 Dutch cities between 1994-2011 shows that opening a tippelzone decreases registered sexual abuse and rape by about 30-40 percent in the first two years.
- Macedonia 100.0% (17/17)
- Ukraine 85.0% (17/20)
- Kyrgyzstan 64.2% (9/14)
- Bulgaria 70.0% (7/10)
- Serbia 62.5% (5/8)
- Russia (Siberia) 55.0% (11/20)
- Latvia 42.9% (9/21)
- Russia (Northwest district) 30.0% (6/20)
- Lithuania 15.0% (3/20)Slovakia 5.0% (1/20)
Sex workers face stigma and prosecution in the US and around the world. As Molly Smith and Juno Mac write in their 2018 book Revolting Prostitutes: The Fight for Sex Workers’ Rights, tens of thousands of people are “arrested, prosecuted, incarcerated, deported, or fined” for sex work-related offenses in the US every year. In a 2003 survey of street-based sex workers in New York City, 80 percent said they had been threatened with or experienced violence, and many said the police were no help. In fact, 27 percent of respondents in the survey said they had experienced violence from police officers.
- Racial discrimination by a stripclub owner
- Dismissal of day job because of illegal night time job
- Non payment by a client
- Assault
- Rape
- Also no legal protection for the buyer
- No one is harmed in a legal and professional sexual transaction, and it is performed by consenting adults.
- Sex trafficking is greatly reduced by legalization and decriminalization.
- With decriminalization or legalization comes human right and workers rights, police protection, cctv, panic buttons, and reporting of other crimes, et cetera
- Sexually transmitted infections are reduced.
- Rape instances fall.
- Denmark
- Germany
- Netherlands
- Nevada
- New South Wales, Australia
- New Zealand
- Washtenaw County, Michigan
Sumerian records dating back to ca. 2400 BCE are the earliest recorded mention of prostitution as an occupation. These describe a temple-brothel operated by Sumerian priests in the city of Uruk. This kakum or temple was dedicated to the goddess Ishtar and was the home to three grades of women. The first grade of women were only permitted to perform sexual rituals in the temple, the second group had access to the grounds and catered to visitors, and the third and lowest class lived on the temple grounds. The third class was also free to find customers in the streets.
Pro presented the only arguments, and as such these are more convincing. I am not giving sources because in order to consider sources as a voting issue one side needs to either present very bad, or outstanding sources. Pro's sources are fairly average, and Con doesn't give any sources, so there was no serious violation on Cons part. I am not going to give spelling to anyone because Pro's spelling was not egregious, and I can't punish Con for any spelling errors either as there were no speeches made by Con. I am not going to give conduct to either side because they both FFed over half of their speeches, and although I wish double loss was a thing, it is not, so I have to leave this blank. Yes the argument could be made that 1 speech is better than none, but at the end of the day I do not think that there is a substantial difference between skipping 3 or 4 rounds.
Arguments to Pro for full forfeit. Conduct to Pro for full forfeit. Sources has been given to Pro on top of that because he did provide sources for his argument. Spelling and Grammar is tied because one can’t judge on that without seeing what Con would’ve posted.
Both sides forfeited, but only one made an argument.
Forfeiture on both sides [fully for Con], since, although Pro offered a round 1 argument, which is compelling, by the way, with the sourced stats reduction evident by several studies cited by Pro, Pro forfeited all following rounds, which scores a forfeiture. All Pro needed to do was enter an extension in all following rounds to score a win. However, by having a first round arguments, Pro wins the source and conduct points, thus backing into a win, overall.
Full forfeit
FF .
Greater forfeiture.
Both FFs and both abandoned their debate, but at least Pro did something.
Sex work should be illegal, obviously
Honestly, we should probably mandate sex work to a certain degree. It honestly sucks, to be incapable of getting laid.
Ok, have reduced to four
Why do you need five rounds?
I've met you half way. Changed it to two weeks for arguments but kept at five rounds.
I'd accept if time for argument is changed to two weeks, and no more than 4 rounds of debate.
How do you define 'sex work' for this debate?
Must be a different Nevets. I can assure you I only ever had one debate on DDO and it was about the Triune brain. But sure, if you want to accept then go ahead.
I remember you destroying Mikal in a debate similar to this way back in DDO. Care for another go, or tired?
Your argument is completely your choice, so long as you understand the definition of what I am arguing for. Which I am sure is not hard to grasp.
while illegalizing prohibition is near impossible to argue for con, social prohibition (ex. "the societal norm should be shunning sex work") is a very tricky stance that I can potentially take to destroy your assumptions. Is this something you would like?